the gospel of jesus christ according to ayomipo
How do you know you are not going down the wrong road?
How do you know you have not misinterpreted what God said to you?
How did Joseph know he didn’t have to escape from slavery so he could fulfill God’s big plans for him?
How did Mordecai know letting Esther go for the beauty peageant was a right decision?
Why didn’t he hide her like Moses was hidden?
What’s the guarantee that your opinion of living by faith is not really living in error?
Why didn’t God console Jacob while he mourned Joseph?
My mom just called me a few minutes ago. In tears.
What would you do when God calls you and your Mom needs her only child?
This is the question that stares me in the face. The question i have been trying to avoid for the past two years of working in the ministry.
I can not give more details because it involves more than myself.
God, give me courage.
12.23AM. I just spent the last five hours watching the last five episode of Heroes.
WOW!
Lately, I have been feeling a little disconnected, a little incomplete. I think I know what David meant when he said “my heart pants after God…”. I am panting for something, someone. I spoke in tongues this evening. I haven’t done that in too long. I didn’t want to stop. But I stopped. I know what this is…I miss God. I miss the Holy Spirit. My days have gotten so busy, so crowded. My fellowship has become more microwave, and less passionate. I seem to be trading my walk with God for my work for God. I need to stop. To stand still. To listen again. To remember the intimacy. So help me God.
He restoreth my soul…
okay, i admit i just heard the term alter ego from the DVD heroes, so i had to use it ASAP. And since, it sort of makes sense that i should write something, here’s some bits and pieces. my writing cap is not on right now, so this may come out all un-writer-like.
first, the silence of the land. half of our staff didn’t show up today. and during today’s service 3/4 of the church didn’t turn up. because the land has gone to sleep, courtesy of the labor union strike to protest against the fuel hike in the country.
i was able to take a few minutes to get my head out of my computer and look at the streets. they were deserted. for a lagos industrial street, that’s serious. you could actually take a nap of the road without fear of being run over. there was no fuel to run the cars, and the few public transport had cutthroat fares people just didn’t bother. i might want to add at this point that it is another reason to throw thanks upwards that i live just across the road from where i work. so fuel scarcity and price hike has no effect on me. well, sort of. the restaurants might soon close up. that would be a bother.
moving on, i am happy to annouce that i have joined the DVD watching community. yeah, i know. i have lived under a rock all my life. one of the good things of losing my former laptop to the muggers is that my new laptop has a DVD rom, so i am now officially a DVD watcher. and nope i didnt pick smallville, or prison break or desperate housewives or all the others i have heard or read about. my high school mates wouldn’t be surprised. they always thought i was eccentric. well, i picked HEROES. the complete first season, except for the last three episodes but i can’t complain considering i am contributing to piracy. anyways. i am so loving this drama, it reminds of me of one of my earlier posts ET – the original. every night, i take out an hour to indulge myself. just completed episode 11 tonite, and 7 more to go.
oh by the way, i am now officially a blog veteran. i joined blog world june 18, 2006. so that means i am one year old. hurray.
i also recently had a virtual breakup with the girl i have been wooing for over four years, right from my first year in university. she’s pissed cos i can’t get it into my thick head that she can only be my friend. so we said goodbye – one more time. until the next time. lol. for some uncanny reason, we just bond even in our disagreement. oh by the way, she is my “mother in the lord” as paul would say. she taught me the basics about faith and brought me into the ministry. so if it wasn’t for her, i probably would not be sitting in this office now. maybe that’s why i think she’s also meant to grow old with me. oh well, love is a complex thing.
okay, i think i have blabbed long enough. this blogging thin seems to have gotten a little dry, but i hope to catch the fire again soon.
thanks people for sharing my life and letting me share your lives.
Okay, snap out of it. So workload is huge, but you can sure squeeze in a post. You’re just being lazy. Get your brain cells off their butt and write.
It will be 5 years this December. Mummy misses you so much. Me too. It was tough when you left. But it’s getting better. You made all the difference. Happy Father’s Day.
Hey people, am still around and got lots of stuff in my head to write, but workload leaves me no time. soon, though, i will be posting something.
Abba Father, help me to be conscious that walking with you is worth more than walking with the world. Help me be conscious that the glory you give is worth more than the glory the world gives. Help me realize that it pays to be on your team, inspite of the attraction of the world.
In my last post I wrote about keeping vertical relationships and km wanted me to explain myself.
Well, I have come to understand that the company you keep goes a long way in determining your success and failure. And for someone who has been called out of the pack, and named with the name of Christ, we have come, as scripture puts it, into an innumerable company of saints and angel, and thus have a responsibility to live worthy of the high calling we have received – a call to arms.
Td jakes said failure is to not live out God’s purpose for your life. I totally agree. And from scripture I know that each time God calls a man, he takes him away from the masses and brings him into esoteric company. Mostly, he starts off by placing him in tutelage. Picture Joseph: he had a purpose to preserve posterity for the nation of Israel. But he needed to be trained, so God put him in a position where he could learn the tricks of leadership from Potiphar. By the time he was well equipped, God now places him over an entire city.
So in vertical relationships, you have someone you look up to for mentorship, and there are those who look up to you for mentorship. That way you are in a perpetual state of growth. You bless as you are blessed, which I think was God’s original design for man in genesis. “And God blessed the man and instructed him to go, multiply and replenish”.
This relationship is opposed to horizontal relationships where all your acquaintances are on the same level with you, and hence no one thinks of learning anything from the other. There is interaction but very little benefit. We all know the same thing, live on the same level. These kinds of relationships keep us at the mediocre level of life. For a continuous reach for the stars we must always have something to look forward to, otherwise we accept the status quo and remain as we are. Great men are those who waited on greater men, and greater men are those who made great men.
I have had a number of very significant relationships in my life that helped define the person I have become and prepare me for the life God has called me to. I should blog about these pages of my book real soon.
Thanks to everyone who has welcomed me back.
This morning in church Pastor gave us some thoughts for the month of June, and i would like to share:
1. Walk worthy of your calling: Prove your ministry. There is a quality of life that the investment of God’s word in you deserves; a level of productivity that you should function in because you are a Christian.
2. Press in: All you have seen is not all there is available. Enter into new levels of relationship with the Spirit. Attain spiritual highs. Explore your inheritance in Christ.
3. Live error free: Take accurate steps. Get it right the first time. Function in the Spirit’s accuracy. You are led by the Spirit, remember.
4. Be discerning: Not every association is needful for the level God is taking you. Become selective of your associations. Better to keep vertical relationships.
5. Mind your language and guard your thoughts.
6. Be Time Conscious: Save the seconds and you will save the minutes. And the hours. And the days. And the weeks. And the months. And the years. Moses prayed that we should learn to schedule our days.
I have been MIA. But not intentionally.
Life after data loss, hmm, I know this first hand now. When I blogged about my external hard drive dropping, I didn’t mention that it was both my working drive and my backup. After almost losing the data on my laptop previously, I decided to store on the laptop only the basic things I needed presently. So dropping my hard drive and not being able to access it meant losing almost 4ogb of about 4 years of work.
But hey that was the good news. On Monday May 21st, as I left the office to go home, which is just across the road, I got mugged. My 4-year old laptop, mp3 player, mouse, earphone, checkbook and over 10k in cash.
Strangely, after the initial shock and denial, I was filled with a vague calm. I had always wanted a new laptop, and I saw this as an opportunity for a new one even though I had no idea how I would afford it. Except for a miracle. After all both my first and second laptops had come by faith.
Well, faith paid off again. Though in retrospect I realize that it is a 7 month old faith – I just received a brand new HP 510 laptop two days ago. Four times better than my last two. I am reminded that all things work together for good for those who are called according to his purpose. Now I am set to lay hands on my external hard drive, and life can be beautiful again.
Any which way, this soldier is back again.
Faith is Made of This 